Arches National Park News

The last issue of Conde Nast Traveler includes the Iconic Itinerary that I wrote of the American Southwest.

The forecast statewide this weekend calls for thunderstorms Sunday and a cold, showery Monday.

The Moab City Council will consider whether to rezone some prime real estate and make way for new condominiums.

Los Angeles, Aug 24 : At least 10 people were killed when the plane in which they were travelling crashed near the Arches National Park in the US state of Utah, officials said Saturday.

A twin-engine plane crashed and burned near an airport not far from Arches National Park in southeast Utah, killing the pilot and nine passengers connected with a group of skin cancer clinics, an official said ...

A twin-engine plane crashed and burned near an airport not far from Arches National Park in southeastern Utah, killing the pilot and nine passengers connected with a group of skin cancer clinics, an official said Saturday.

The plane was fully engulfed in flames when emergency responders arrived late Friday at the site about 2 miles from the Canyonlands Field airport, and there were no survivors, Grand County Sheriff James Nyland said.

The victims included the director of a company with dermatology clinics in three states and staff members.

Read more at deseretnews.com ... TOPICS: Arts/Photography ; Education ; Outdoors ; Science KEYWORDS: bryce ; canyon ; erosion ; utah Because it's there.

Blogwire Bauss: Wall Arch collapses I just had to share this, because Arches National Park, outside of Moab, Utah, is one of my favorite places... Humboldt Blogs sans NCJ STOOGES RIPPED OFF! Sad to report that ...

Arches National Park in southeastern Utah is a geological art gallery, containing thousands of natural sandstone sculptures, including more than 2,000 arches carved over millions of years by erosion.

The first major thunderstorm of the summer hit the eastern part of the county filling creeks and washes to overflowing and closing roads with thick mud and large rocks last Thursday, Aug.

Local arch aficionados will have to wait a while to pay homage to their memories of Wall Arch, one of Arches National Park's most visited and photographed sites.

Did the Sierra Club really intend to encourage folks to stand atop Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park? What were they thinking at the Sierra Club when they dreamed up their latest solicitation for new ...

I couldn't help but laugh at this bold headline on CNN.com : "Gravity, erosion rob Utah park of popular arch." Why so funny? There wouldn't even be an Arches National Park if it wasn't for gravity and erosion.

Nature is falling apart . Standing just 150 feet from the platform on which President Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, one of the few remaining "witness trees" to the Battle of Gettysburg has been ...

One of the largest and most visible arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.

This grove of tamarisk was spotted along the Little Colorado River in Arizona. Photo by John Grahame.

Conservationists, county leaders and oil and gas executives all oppose a new U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan for 1.8 million acres of redrock desert near Moab, but for seemingly irreconcilable reasons.

In accordance with Utah Interagency State-wide Fire Restrictions, and under the authority of Title 36 Code of Federal Regulations , Part 1, Section 1.5 , and pursuant to 36 CFR 2.13 , the following fire ...

Bill Morton On Travel If a poll were taken of all the people of Europe and North America in 1900 and the question was: "Who is the most famous living person in the world who is not a head-of-state?" Buffalo ...

Bill Morton On Travel If a poll were taken of all the people of Europe and North America in 1900 and the question was: "Who is the most famous living person in the world who is not a head-of-state?" Buffalo ...